Let These Stones
Speak: Pequea Township, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania- Buy it now for $14.95

This CD set contains high resolution
photographs of every
tombstone in Pequea Township, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, arranged alphabetically and by location in 16
unique cemeteries.

"Let These Stones Speak" is an interactive
visual presentation of each cemetery, tombstone by tombstone. The
tombstones are linked together on the CD in the same order they
appear in the cemetery, giving the effect of actually walking through
the cemetery, visiting the resting places of your
ancestors.

The tombstones are also linked through an
index, so one may quickly find the name of the individual of interest
and click directly to the specified tombstone photograph.

Tombstone photographs may be printed or pasted
into your personal genealogy program.

Below is a list of the
cemeteries found on Let
These Stones Speak, Pequea
Township. The number of documented individuals on the CD for each
cemetery is found in parentheses following the cemetery name.

1. Boehm United Methodist Church
Cemetery (701): This cemetery is located to the rear of Boehm United
Methodist Church, along W Boehm Rd, Willow Street. The cemetery
surrounds the 1791 stone chapel, built by Martin Boehm, one of the
founders of the United Brethren in Christ movement, the German
parallel to Methodism in the 18th century. <see Mapquest
map>

2. (Old) Byerland Graveyard (85):
This graveyard is located south of Byerland Church Road, behind the
farm buildings in the meadow. <see Mapquest
map>

4. Former site (Second Lock Road)
(0): This graveyard was shown on the 1864 and 1875 maps, but there is
no 20th century record of its existence. It is not known which
families were buried here, nor what became of the tombstones. <see
Mapquest
map for approx.
location>

5. Former site of Byerland
Mennonite Meetinghouse and Graveyard (6): Located along Mount Hope
School Road, there is no trace of what once existed on this site. The
tombstones were moved to the rear of the Byerland Mennonite Church
Cemetery. <see Mapquest
map for approx.
location>

6. Good Family Graveyard (7): This
graveyard is located at the foot of the hill, behind the Hidden Acres
housing development. It had not been referenced in any source prior
to the release of Let These
Stones Speak - Volume 1:
Pequea Township. <see Mapquest
map>

7. Harnish Family Graveyard (29):
This graveyard is located south of Penn Grant Road, on the hill
overlooking the Harnish and Kendig farms. <see Mapquest
map>

8. Haverstick Family Graveyard
(3): This obscure graveyard is located in the forest overlooking the
Conestoga River, a few hundred yards north of the end of Short Lane.
<see Mapquest
map>

9. (Hans) Hess Family Graveyard
(81): This graveyard is located on the hill overlooking Baumgardner
Rd, west of Boehm United Methodist Church. It contains the oldest
legible gravestone of the Let these Stones Speak project to date, Hans Hess, who died in 1733.
<see Mapquest
map>

10. Kendig Family Graveyard
(former site) (19): This graveyard was located north of Kendig Rd,
west of the large brick Kendig Mansion. The graveyard was moved to
New Danville Mennonite Church Cemetery prior to 1933. <see
Mapquest
map for approx.
location>

11. (Martin) Kendig Family
Graveyard (former site) (0): This graveyard once existed south of
Penn Grant Road, on the former Martin Kendig farm. A trolley line
excavation reportly destroyed much of the graveyard in the late
1800s. It is unknown whether any stones have survived or where they
are now located. <see Mapquest
map for approx.
location>

12. Line Family Graveyard (3):
This graveyard is reportedly still in existence on former Hans Line
farm, north of Byerland Church Road. The graveyard only contained one
legible marker in the 1980s. We have not been able to locate it for
photography. The three referenced individuals buried here are
documents in older sources. <see Mapquest
map for approx.
location>

13. New Danville Mennonite Church
Cemetery (1,462): This cemetery is located east of Marticville Rd
beside the church at 103 Marticville Rd, Lancaster. <see
Mapquest
map>

14. New Danville Reformed
Mennonite Cemetery (361): This cemetery is located on the north side
of Schultz Rd, in New Danville. Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey
Chocolate Company, has maternal grandparents buried here. the church
that once existed on this site, was torn down in 1969. <see
Mapquest
map>

15. Pequea Brethren in Christ
Church Cemetery (412): This cemetery is located at 40 Church Rd,
Lancaster. It began as a Hess Family Graveyard. <see Mapquest
map>

16. Rush Family Graveyard (5):
This graveyard is located est of Radcliffe Rd, near the intersection
with Hill Rd. The graveyard is what remains of what was once a much
larger cemetery. <see Mapquest
map>

Let These Stones
Speak, Volume 1, Pequea
Township, is a necessary research tool if you have interest in the
above surnames, the above cemeteries, or have any ancestral or family
connections to Pequea Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Please visit the Bookstore in you have interest in adding this CD to
your genealogical collection.